User:Xuanwei Mei

Xuanwei Mei is currently a Ph.D. student at the College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, under the instruction of Prof. Yaoguang Chang. His research focuses on the gene-mining and characterization of carbohydrate-binding modules. So far, he discovered and characterized five CBMs:

CBM16: ABP_Wf (alginate-binding CBM) [1] CBM47: WfCBM47 (sulfated fucan-binding CBM) [2] CBM70: SrCBM70 (hyaluronic acid-binding CBM) [3] CBM92: Cgk16A-CBM92 (carrageenan-binding CBM; the first member of the CBM92 family) [4] CBMnc: Fun174A-CBM (sulfated fucan-binding CBM) [5]

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1. Gilbert HJ, Stålbrand H, and Brumer H. (2008). How the walls come crumbling down: recent structural biochemistry of plant polysaccharide degradation. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2008;11(3):338-48. DOI:10.1016/j.pbi.2008.03.004 |